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...vibrantly alive in the U.S. - cell phones and laptops are everywhere - but faith in the science that produces this technology has weakened in the past decade. Evidence ranges from the proliferation of street-side palmists all the way to the White House: in 2005, the religious fundamentalists who oppose Darwin's theory of evolution got a boost when President Bush suggested that American schools should have the freedom to choose instead to teach intelligent design - a slick, pseudoscientific version of Biblical creationism. To a visitor from the supposedly mystical East, all this is disturbing - even repulsive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystical Mischief in New York | 7/16/2008 | See Source »

...prosecution told the court that before Darwin disappeared, the couple faced mounting repayments on a $490,000 mortgage and other debts. That financial crisis, prosecutor Andrew Robertson told the jury, was what motivated the Darwins to stage John's death so Anne could claim insurance and pension money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canoe Man's Wife Stands Trial | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...prosecution claims that Anne Darwin had not only duped police officers, but her own children as well. "She put on a great act," Robertson said. "Because of the distress apparently being suffered by Mrs Darwin, a police officer was appointed as a family liaison officer for her. Such was the act she was able to perform, this seasoned police officer was completely taken in. Throughout the period he was dealing with her, she kept up the facade that she was genuinely grieving for the death of her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canoe Man's Wife Stands Trial | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...missing and presumed dead in 2002: "[My mother] flung her arms around me, she said 'He's gone I think. I have lost him.' She wouldn't stop crying for ages," he said. "She wandered around the house in a daze like the rest of us." Robertson commented: "Anne Darwin clearly thought nothing of lying to her sons in this way and convincing them that their own father was lost at sea and dead in order to see this fraud through to its conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canoe Man's Wife Stands Trial | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

...defense, which will be laid out before the jury in coming days, Darwin is expected to maintain that she was coerced by her husband. The prosecution tried to subvert that claim in advance. "We submit this was a convincing performance and one which obviously required no prompting, let alone coercion, from her husband." Robertson said that the court would see in due course how the couple "worked a complex web of transactions between various bank accounts, making the finances all the more difficult to trace." For Mrs. Darwin's defense to succeed, Mr Robertson said that she must prove that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canoe Man's Wife Stands Trial | 7/15/2008 | See Source »

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